H-Pi Instruments is now shippping the TBX1 – a MIDI box designed to make custom keyboard tunings as easy as pushing a button. Attach this little box to a compatible synth and you can make every key play any pitch you want. It comes preloaded with 128 tunings for you to try out, and it… Read More World’s First Microtonal MIDI Keyboard Converter Shipping
Developed during 1979 and marketed beginning in 1980, the Votrax SC-01A speech synthesizer chip was the first phoneme-based language chip available for consumer-grade applications.
The £50,000 PRS New Music Award has been given to the Fragmented Orchestra, a project designed to work in reflection of the neural functions of our brains. The Fragmented Orchestra is a huge distributed musical structure modeled on the firing of neurons within the brain’s cortex. It is designed by its composers to perform a… Read More £50,000 For Brain Music
Between 1971 and 1973, Dan Sandin designed and built the Sandin Image Processor (IP) a patch programmable analog computer for real-time manipulation of video inputs. In other words – a modular synth for video.
This colorful video features sound artist Charles Cohen improvising on a 1970’s Buchla Music Easel. This extremely rare instrument is one of Don Buchla’s 200 series. Buchla (a pioneer of audio synthesis) only manufactured 14 of these units. The entire film was edited from an hour-long set of free improvisation, with audio was taken directly… Read More Buchla Music Easel Demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ach9Byn2ND4 The big beat sound is still great – but Prodigy’s Firestarter video hasn’t aged so well. I remember it as being more dark, twisted and David Lynch. Watching it now, though, Keith Flint looks a lot like an emo version of Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss. And lyrics like “I’m a firestarter, twisted firestarter,” don’t sound… Read More Prodigy’s Firestarter Hasn’t Aged So Well
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[display_podcast] Jesse Kriss and DJ Axel Foley have put together an interesting collection of Visual Scratch videos: We capture turntable velocity using Ms. Pinky and fader position using an Ecler Nuo 4. The scratching sound is generated in Max/MSP. Then we scale the control data (turntable and fader) to ±1.0, the range of digital audio… Read More Visualizing DJ Performance Videos
Nice demo of using the Future Retro Revolution as an audio processor. With an analog resonant filter, envelope, overdrive, and DSP effects, the Revolution makes a powerful effects processor. The Elektron is slaved to the Revolution’s MIDI. via BigCityMusic
Why is it that, despite a well-executed PR campaign, so many videos of the Tenori-On are so boring? Here are five Tenori-On videos that are not just visually boring, but they suggest that the Tenori-On encourages a certain sameness of sound: I Am Robot And Proud @ Cruising Iris Making MIDI Music with the Yamaha… Read More Five Boring Tenori-On Videos
